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academic bias is so funny because you’ll be reading about the same historical event and one person is like “Despite the troubles that befell his homeland and near constant criticism of the court King Blorbo remained strong in the face of adversity” and the other one is like “after letting his people carry the brunt of his cringefail decisions Blorbo the Shitface refused to listen to any reason and continued to be a warmongering piece of shit. Also he was ugly.”
#historians are out there beefing with ppl who died over 200 years ago. good for them#history#history memes#this isn’t really about anyone in particular#but I did read the most hilariously bitter takes on alexander I#not that it’s hard to poke fun at his vanity and indicisive nature but like. he was just a poor little meow meow#although I have some weird grudges against dead ppl as well *cough* Catherine II *cough*
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oh they know they're that bitch
#vanity by auguste toulmouche#artist is walter macewen#artist is alfred stevens#artist is vittorio reggianini#passing glance by thomas pollock anshutz#artist is maria wilhelmina wandscheer#artist is jules emile saintin#sweet reflections by gabriel schachinger#artist is victor oliver gilsoul#artist is mose bianchi#artist is auguste toulmouche#artist is eugene accard#artist is maher morcos#cant find artist#artist is luma von flesch-brunningen#art history#art
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Carmen Dell’Orefice
1953, Vanity Fair Lingerie
Photographer: Mark Shaw
#Carmen Dell’Orefice#fashion#photography#fashion history#vanity fair#magazine#campaign#editorial#1950s#black and white#Mark Shaw
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This is an incredible story that I have never heard told in as much detail as this recent article by James Robenalt in Vanity Fair!

#History#Presidents#Presidential History#John F. Kennedy#JFK#President Kennedy#Kennedy Administration#Kennedy Family#Jacqueline Kennedy#Jackie Kennedy#First Ladies#First Families#Presidential Families#Presidential Relationships#The Kennedys#Assassination of John F. Kennedy#Kennedy Assassination#JFK Assassination#Presidency#Presidential Personalities#Secret Service#Vanity Fair#James Robenalt
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🔪Butcher Vanity🥩
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Context for this version of Secret History Tails :
Basically, it's an AU where Sonic met Secret History Tails not at Sega HQ but rather some seemingly abandoned house.
Instead of Sonic being an employee, he's just some guy who pretty much encounters a rather friendly fellow(SH Tails) who apparently eats people(only jerks, don't worry).
I'll go more into depth in another post.

#secret history tails#mashed tails#sh tails#butcher vanity#crazy tails#secret history au#secret histories tails#secret history#secret histories#psycho tails#insanitails#mashed#tails prower#tails fanart#miles tails prower#secret history of sonic and tails#tails miles prower#tails the fox#miles prower#sonic the hedgehog#sonic fandom#sonic fanart#my art#artists on tumblr#screenshot redraw
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One cannot suppress a certain indignation when one sees men’s actions on the great world-stage and finds, beside the wisdom that appears here and there among individuals, everything in the large woven together from folly, childish vanity, even from childish malice and destructiveness. In the end, one does not know what to think of the human race, so conceited in its gifts.
Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose
#philosophy#quotes#Immanuel Kant#Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose#vanity#malice#harm#ego#humanity
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I recently had this link shared with me by one of my lovely friends here in the fandom, and found it so compelling that I wanted to share it with all of you.
This is a recent article from Vanity Fair about Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, both iconic actors from the era we now call "Old Hollywood," and it details their extremely interesting--both by the standards of the era and today--relationship. It's a long read, but more than worth it.
For those who may not know, Cary Grant was an English-born American actor and iconic leading man, and Randolph Scott was an American actor most known for appearing in Westerns. Both men were married to women/had children at varying points in their lives, but by some accounts (and especially what is chronicled in this article), they were the loves of each other's lives, even though being openly queer was next to impossible at the time, and would've been looked at as a career-ending (and maybe even life-ending) move.
There also seem to be quite a few parallels between Cary and Randolph 90 years ago and Michael and David today. The two men actually lived together for a number of years, during which the press of the day chose to portray them as "just two fun-loving bachelors waiting to find the right gal," all while Grant in particular starred in films with queer-flavored undertones that were both bold and downright dangerous in the era of the Hays Code. They continued living together when Grant was first married to his first wife, Virginia Cherrill (and after they divorced), and fun fact: While Grant was married, Scott moved right next door...so they were, in fact, neighbors.
Here are a few other excerpts that very much reminded me of Michael and David, for your consideration. (FYI that "Archie Leach" was Cary Grant's birth name before he changed it to his stage name.) This first one calls to mind the Radio Times calling Michael and David a "handsome couple" on the night of the NTAs in 2021:

This next one of course made me think of Michael and David talking on David's podcast (skip to the 1:25 mark) in 2019 about hating photo shoots and how Michael flat-out refused to answer questions at one point and only got through it because of David:

And this last one features a quote from a close friend about Grant and Scott that nearly made my heart skip an entire beat. For reasons that will soon be very, very obvious:
(I mean...)
What is also remarkable about this article (though not necessarily in a good way) is the mention of how little has changed since Grant and Scott's time. How even today, any actor who comes out as any flavor of queer is immediately looked at differently, and how the fear of both professional and personal repercussions keeps people in the closet for so many reasons.
These were the parts of the article that stood out to me the most, but as always I would love to hear from my followers with your thoughts and takes on the parallels above or anything else that you find interesting...
#michael sheen#welsh seduction machine#david tennant#soft scottish hipster gigolo#vanity fair#cary grant#randolph scott#old hollywood#this is somehow heartbreaking and beautiful all at once#also 'Our souls did touch' makes me think of Michael and David every time they look at each other#the parallels are paralleling#but i will leave it to my followers to make up their own minds#queer history#thoughts#discourse
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Vanité, 1930 | ph by André Garban
#mary magdalene#andré garban#1930s#1930s photography#1930s fashion#1930s aesthetic#1930s art#skull#skull art#vanitas#artwork#art detail#art details#death art#art gallery#art history#vintage art#vintage aesthetic#retro aesthetic#retro art#vanité#vanity#female body#woman with skull#dark photography#dark aesthetic#dark gothic#goth photography#memento mori
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‘Vanity’ by Auguste Toulmouche (French, 1829–1890)
#Auguste Toulmouche#vintage art#classic art#art#art history#old art#art details#painting#vintage#moody art#oil painting#vanity
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Unknown artist, “Memento Mori” (c. 100 BCE),
Mosaic, 18 1/2 x 41 1/2 inches (47 x 41.5 cm),
Held at the Naples National Archaeological Museum
#art#history#design#style#archeology#antiquity#mosaic#memento mori#vanity#skull#skeleton#interiors#happy haloween#haloween
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Vanity Fair cover.
Artist: Frank X. Leyendecker
November 1st, 1914
#Frank Leyendecker#art#painting#fashion#art history#Vanity Fair#1910s#magazine#cover#illustration#fashion history
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Woodrow kills and eats Teddy Roosevelt for the one millionth time 🍴🍴🍴🍴
#woodrow wilson#theodore roosevelt#presidents#us presidents#u.s. presidents#us history#u.s history#butcher vanity#I've had this in my gallery since last year and only finished it recently 💔#I've been lacking and I hate that...#I have like two other sketches of Woodrow being like this 🙏#Snailpilled Drawings
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~ Théobald Chartran, Candida, Marchioness of Tweeddale. Published in Vanity Fair on 1 March 1884.
via pixels.com
#i need this dress immediately#théobald chartran#vanity fair#illustration#illustration art#vintage illustration#portrait#portraiture#old aristocrats#victorian#victoriana#victorian era#victorian aesthetic#victorian fashion#fashion history#historical fashion#history of fashion#1880s#1880s art#1880s fashion#1880s dress#1884#e
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First Letter from Julia I. Sand to Chester A. Arthur





[1881 Aug 27]
To the Hon Chester A. Arthur.
The hours of Garfield's life are numbered--before this meets your eye, you may be President. The people are bowed in grief; but--do you realize it?--not so much because he is dying, as because you are his successor. What President ever entered office under circumstances so sad! The day he was shot, the thought rose in a thousand minds that you might be the instigator of the foul act. Is not that a humiliation which cuts deeper than any bullet can pierce? Your best friends said: "Arthur must resign--he cannot accept office, with such a suspicion resting upon him." And now your kindest opponents say: "Arthur will try to do right"--adding gloomily--"He won't succeed, though--making a man President cannot change him."
But making a man President can change him! At a time like this, if anything can, that can. Great emergencies awaken generous traits which have lain dormant half a life. If there is a spark of true nobility in you, now is the occasion to let it shine. Faith in your better nature forces me to write to you--but not to beg you to resign. Do what is more difficult and more brave. Reform! It is not the proof of highest goodness never to have done wrong--but it is a proof of it, sometime in one's career, to pause and ponder, to recognize the evil, to turn resolutely against it and devote the remainder of ones life to that only which is pure and exalted. Such revolutions of the soul are not common. No step towards them is easy. In the humdrum drift of daily life, they are impossible. But once in a while there comes a crisis which renders miracles feasible. The great tidal wave of sorrow which has rolled over the country, has swept you loose from your old moorings and set you on a mountain-top, alone. As President of the United States--made such by no election, but by a national calamity--you have no old associations, no personal friends, no political ties, you have only your duty to the people at large. You are free--free to be as able and as honorable as any man who ever filled the presidential chair.
Your past--you know best what it has been. You have lived for worldly things. Fairly or unfairly, you have won them. You are rich, powerful--tomorrow, perhaps, you will be President. And what is it all worth? Are you peaceful--are you happy? What if a few days hence the hand of the next unsatisfied ruffian should lay you low, and you should drag through months of weary suffering, in the White House, knowing that all over the land not a prayer was uttered in your behalf, not a tear shed, that the great American people was glad to be rid of you--would not worldly honors seem rather empty then?
Make such things impossible. Rise to the emergency. Disappoint our fears. Force the nation to have faith in you. Show from the first that you have none but the purest aims. It may be difficult at once to inspire confidence, but persevere. In time--when you have given reason for it--the country will love and trust you. If any man says, "With Arthur for President, Civil Service Reform is doomed," prove that Arthur can be its firmest champion. Do not thrust on the people politicians who have forfeited their respect--no matter how near they may be to you as personal friends. Do not remove any man from office unnecessarily. Appoint those only of marked ability and of sterling character. Such may not be abundant, but you will find them, if you seek them. You are far too clever to be easily deceived. In all your policy, have none but the highest motives. With the lamp of patriotism in your hand, your feet will not be likely to stumble.
Do you care for applause? Of course, you have had it, after a fashion. Perhaps from the dregs of the populace, inspired by the lowest of politicians. Possibly it pleased you at the time--it may have served some purpose that you solved then. But in the depths of your soul, do you not despise it? Would not one heart-felt "God bless you!" from the honest and true among your countrymen, be worth ten thousand times more? You can win such blessing, if you will.
Your name now is on the annals of history. You cannot slink back into obscurity, if you would. A hundred years hence, school boys will recite your name in the list of Presidents and tell of your administration. And what shall posterity say? It is for you to choose whether your record shall be written in black or in gold. For the sake of your country, for your own sake and for the sakes of all who have ever loved you, let it be pure and bright.
As one of the people over whom you are to be President, I make you this appeal. Perhaps you have received many similar. If not, still believe that this expresses the thoughts in many hearts, today--and do not give those who have had faith in you, cause for regret.
Yours Respectfully,
Julia I. Sand.
46 E. 74th st. New York.
Aug 27th 1881.
#history is awesome#presidential talk#last week if you'd known me in real life there's a 50% chance i'd have tackled you and forced you to read this#isn't this letter just astounding?#imagine sending this to a soon-to-be president!#and him *saving* it!#there are such lovely turns of phrase#even while she is *so* brutal and unflinching#my favorite line might be 'you are far too clever to be easily deceived'#just appealing straight to his vanity#brilliant!#i haven't loved a letter this much since 84 charing cross road#the moral of the story is that the best letters are written by slightly cracked politically-minded literary spinsters
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A good book is one that you come out of thinking "I want to make something that makes someone else feel the way this made me feel"
#I'm right now talking about Unnatural History but other works are also available#Hogfather immediately comes to mind as does And what good will your vanity be when the rapture comes#also something that isn't a book at all but rather a piece of music they played on the first night of the Proms this year#Hallelujah Sim. by Ben Nobuto I've just looked it up#type of thing that makes you go Oh THAT'S What You Can Do With A Choir And An Orchestra#it's almost something along the lines of Fitter Happier by Radiohead or You Liked This (Okay#Computer!) by Will Wood
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Matt walking the red carpet at the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party | March 2, 2025
📷: Warren Alfie Baker (Matt’s stylist)
#matt bomer#mattbomeredit#matt bomer edit#most handsome man in the world#i love you matt bomer#i love matt bomer#most gorgeous man in the history of humanity!!!!#vanity fair#oscars
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